Glucose tolerance and excessively large infants: A twelve year follow-up study

Abstract 1. Obesity, abnormal glucose curves, and repeated delivery of infants in excess of 4,500 grams are significant with regard to the future development of diabetes. Seventynine per cent of the patients in our study who had this triad are now diabetic. 2. Of the 67 patients tested, 24 (36 per cent) are diabetic and 14 (21 per cent) have an abnormal curve in the nonpregnant state. 3. Sixty per cent of the women who were delivered of one or more large infants now have a diabetic or prediabetic curve.